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‘The thing is to be brave’ – Maggi Hambling toughs it out

Maggi Hambling, photographed with her pug, Peggy, in November 2020.

From that scandalous scallop to her Mary Wollstonecraft monument, Maggi Hambling is no stranger to controversy

The week in art news – Art Basel postponed to September

All the fun of this year’s fair has been postponed from June to September.

Plus: Bozar damaged by fire | and City of London to remove statues with slavery links

Gordon Parks’s photographs bear powerful witness to Black lives in America

Untitled, New York, New York (1963), Gordon Parks.

The photographer’s images of the struggle for civil rights are as relevant as when they were first made

Uffizi on a Dish

Boy with a Basket of Fish and Lobsters (18th century), Giacomo Ceruti.

The Florentine museum has asked celebrity chefs to confect new recipes inspired by paintings in its collection

Margel Hinder: Modern in Motion

Margel Hinder working on her sculpture for the Western Assurance Company (detail; c. 1973), David Moore.

The Art Gallery of New South Wales hosts the first major survey of the Australian sculptor’s fluid abstract works

Bilbao and Painting

The Team of the Athletic Club (1915), José Arrue.

The Guggenheim Bilbao explores how painters responded to the city’s economic boom in the late 19th century

Marking Monuments

The Cloaking of the statue of Christopher Columbus behind the Bayfront Park Amphitheatre, Miami, Florida (2019), Joiri Minaya.

USF Contemporary Art Museum explores how artists have responded to debates over public memorials

Robert Jenrick wants to keep the mob at bay. So why is he leading it with a pitchfork?

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Bronze guilt: the statue of Edward Colston being pushed into Bristol Harbour in June 2020.

The UK government’s proposal to protect every monument in sight is a kneejerk response that will have ridiculous consequences

Six heritage hotspots dishing out Covid vaccines

Gothic revival? The vaccine queue at Salisbury Cathedral

It’s nigh-on impossible to get a decent dose of culture right now – unless you’re signed up for a jab at a museum

The art world is smitten with Bernie Sanders’ mittens

Bernie Sanders in Wolfgang Laib’s ‘Where have you gone – where are you going?’ (via Phillips Collection)

A meme of Bernie at the inauguration has (predictably) seen the senator popping up in everyone’s favourite paintings

In 18th-century Europe, bizarre oranges and lemons were collector’s items

Weird and wonderful citrus fruit were once highly prized possessions – and one German fanatic made prints of the hundreds of varieties he laid his hands on

The invasion of the Capitol fulfilled a warning from history – and will haunt us for years to come

Selfie harm: rioters in the US Capitol rotunda on January 2021.

The inauguration of Joe Biden as president marks a new chapter, but it won’t wipe out the ugly scenes of the storming of Congress

What not to miss at London Art Fair online

Head of Man (detail; 1948), John Craxton.

The 33rd edition of the fair is also its first digital-only outing, but it still offers the best in British art

The real secret London? It’s down in the river mud

Bank vault: mudlarker Jason Sandy on the foreshore of the River Thames.

The muddy foreshore of the Thames has been an unlikely treasure trove for amateur archaeologists

The Apollo 40 Under 40 Africa in focus: Mikhael Subotzky

The South African photographer talks to Apollo about art, power, and his long-standing mistrust of images

What a sham! On fakery and the Russian avant-garde

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Installation view of 'Russian Avant-Garde at the Museum Ludwig: Original and Fake – Questions, Research, Explanations', with works by or previously attributed to Olga Rozanowa shown side by side.

Suspect and bona fide works rub shoulders at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne – in a display the museum presents as an opportunity for close looking

The week in art news – world’s oldest animal painting found in Indonesia

Photo: Maxime Aubert/Griffith Center for Social Science and Cultural Research

Plus: Smithsonian scales back $2bn redevelopment plan | Naomi Beckwith appointed deputy director and chief curator of Guggenheim | and Champs-Élysées to be turned into ‘extraordinary garden’

Journées internationales du Film sur l’art

La Tentation du réel, l'Agneau mystique des frères Van Eyck (detail of film still; 2019), dir. by Jérôme Laffont and Joachim Thôme.

The 14th edition of the Louvre’s annual film festival, opening on 22 January, will be available to stream at home

Eye Film Player

Detail of a still from Een kinderfeest op 't eiland Marken (1899).

From cinematic classics to new releases – watch titles from the collection of the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam

Inside Out Shorts

A series of short films commissioned by the Barbican and completed during lockdown is now available online

Art businesses must get creative if they’re going to survive this crisis

Dealers and auction houses will need to think strategically as they try to weather the pandemic and its fallout

A Listening Eye: The Films of Mike Dibb

Mike Dibb selecting an image for Seeing Through Drawing (1976).

The Whitechapel Gallery hosts an online programme celebrating the influential documentary film-maker

A Diego Rivera mural is the San Francisco Art Institute’s prize asset – but that doesn’t mean it should be sold

The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City (1931), at the San Francisco Art Institute.

The work is central to the identity of the cash-strapped school

The forgotten fame of Angelica Kauffman

Self-portrait of the Artist Hesitating Between the Arts of Music and Painting (1794), Angelica Kauffman. Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire.

The Swiss artist reinvented history painting from a female perspective. It’s a shame a planned exhibition about her in London has been cancelled